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- Settings of Certificates
- Value of Certificates
- Configure Certificates
- Award a certificate
- Automatically award a certificate
- Certificates by Drieam
- More information
Settings of Certificates
As an admin you can configure the settings in Eduframe. Click on your Account profile (Your name in the top right) and on Settings to get to the settings overview (see image). You will see an overview of settings you can configure within Eduframe.
Click on Certificates.
Value of Certificates
Certificates in Eduframe are digital documents that can be awarded to participants who passed a course edition or a program edition. They provide students with official proof of their knowledge.
While course certificates can be fully automated, program certificates require a manual step. As electives can lead to different outcomes of participants, a manual process gives you the flexibility to ensure each participant receives the specific certificate that matches their unique learning path.
Configure Certificates
There are two types of certificates: program certificates and course certificates. Both follow the same setup process.
When creating certificate templates, tags will be used that automatically pull the correct information from the product. This way, it is not needed to make a separate template for every single course or program.
Click on + Course Certificate template or + Program Certificate template to create a new template. Here you can find the following settings to configure a certificate in Eduframe.
- Define a name.
- Choose a language. This localises the dates outputted with the date tags. See also certificate in different langauges.
- Define the orientation of the page: horizontal or vertical.
- Define the position of the logo of the organization. The logo is already uploaded under Company Information.
- Optional: upload a file with the background image.
- Determine the type of validity of the certificate: unlimited or limited. Based on the validity date, an expiration date can be stated on the certificate.
- Awarded on:
- Creation date: date of awarding certificate
- End date enrollment: date of course ending
- Available for participants: enable or disable. Availability enabled means that
- students can download their certificate on their student portal
- the certificate can be send via e-mail.
- Content: Add tags to the text on the certificate.
- Add signer: Add name and image of the signature.
- CSS: In this box you can determine more lay-out parts.
Award a certificate
Tip: Activate system email 'Certificates' to automatically send emails to participants when a certificate has been awarded.
You can award certificates manually for both courses and programs. For courses, first link the certificate template to the course template.
Link the template (courses)
To prepare a course for awarding, go to the Course Template and select your certificate in the "Certificate template" field. This ensures the correct template is always ready for all editions of that course.
Award the template
Navigate to the Course or Program Edition.
Open the Enrollments tab.
Click the three dots icon next to the student's name and select Award certificate.
For Programs: Since these are not pre-linked, select the specific certificate template you want to award from the list.
If the certificate setting "Available for participants" is enabled and the certificate email is activated, the participant has received the certificate by email and is able to download certificate in their student portal.
Automatically award a certificate
You can set up Eduframe to send certificates automatically when a student passes a course. This happens when a student is marked as "Passed" manually or via Course completion in Canvas. See also in Course completion in Eduframe.
To set this up, follow these steps:
Link the certificate: Connect a certificate to your course template.
Turn on Outcomes: In the Outcomes settings, check the box for "Award Certificate (if available on Course)."
Set up the email: Go to your Email Settings and make sure the Certificate email is enabled.
When integrated with Canvas, this can be done fully automatically. By configuring course completion, Canvas automatically marks a student as "Passed" once all requirements are met, resulting in the certificate being awarded immediately.
Certificates by Drieam
If you want to create a new Certificate template by Drieam (This is in agreement with Drieam and needs to be requested through support) you can deliver the following items:
- An example of how the certificates should look like, so everything together (background, text, signature, fonts)
- Send the background image separately (without text): .jpg file, width has to be smaller or equal to 2160 pixels. Next to the background image we can only add images for signatures. So all other visual elements should be placed in the background image.
- One (or multiple) images of signatures that need to be placed on the certificate. When the signature will be placed on a white background the image can be a .jpg file. If the signature will be placed on a coloured background it should be a .png file with transparent background. Think of what color pen you use when drawing the signature. Black can sometimes look better than a blue pen for example.
- The name and function of the signee
- We need an .otf file of the font you want to use (if you want to use another font than the default that is selected in Eduframe)
- All text: Include within the text what has to be loaded from Eduframe, this can be done through tags. For example in this way: {{student_name}} (everything within brackets will be loaded from Eduframe and can be different per student or course template. Also include the color of the text that you want in a hex code (e.g. #C8E2FF).
More information
Click here for other Articles around the Settings page in Eduframe
Click here if you have any questions for support.
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